Hamas said that the UN Security Council’s resolution on Gaza does not meet Palestinian rights or demands, after the Council adopted a U.S.-sponsored resolution authorizing the creation of an “international stabilization force in the Gaza Strip,” with 13 members voting in favor and Russia and China abstaining.
In a statement, the movement said the resolution “does not rise to the level of our Palestinian people’s political and humanitarian demands and rights, especially in the Gaza Strip.”
It added that the resolution imposes an international trusteeship mechanism over Gaza, something “rejected by Palestinians,” and seeks to achieve objectives of “the occupation, which failed to achieve them through its brutal genocidal war.”
Hamas said the resolution separates “Gaza from the rest of the Palestinian geography” and attempts to impose new realities that undermine “Palestinian principles and legitimate national rights,” depriving Palestinians of their right to self-determination and the establishment of their state with Jerusalem as its capital.
The movement affirmed that “resisting the occupation by all means is a legitimate right guaranteed by international laws and conventions, and that the resistance’s weapons are linked to the existence of the occupation. Any discussion of the weapons file must remain an internal national matter connected to a political process that ensures the end of the occupation, the establishment of the state, and self-determination.”
Hamas added that assigning the international force roles and missions inside Gaza — including disarming the resistance — strips the force of neutrality and turns it into “a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation.”
It stressed that any international force, if established, must be located only at the borders to separate forces and monitor the ceasefire. It must be fully supervised by the United Nations, operate exclusively in coordination with official Palestinian institutions, have no Israeli role in its operations, and work to ensure the flow of aid without becoming a security authority pursuing Palestinians.
Hamas reaffirmed that humanitarian aid, relief for the afflicted, and opening the crossings are fundamental rights for Palestinians in Gaza, and that aid and relief efforts cannot remain subject to “politicization, blackmail, and complex mechanisms,” especially amid the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe created by the occupation. The situation, it said, requires urgently opening the crossings and mobilizing all resources through the United Nations and its institutions, especially UNRWA.
